July 13th, 2009
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Ashes round-up: 13.7.9 - Lucky, lucky boys
So we left things on Friday after two days in which England had sparred with Australia and the match looked fairly even. In truth, Simon Katich and Ricky Ponting’s stand had been the start of a period of domination that would last until the very end of day 5. The Australians hammered centuries for fun, [...]
Mihir Bose’s self-aggrandisement on the Blair trail
The Mihir Bose BBC blog has regularly plumbed depths of tedium, spent undue time celebrating its author’s exploits, and missed the point of a great number of sporting issues, and the latest entry interviewing Tony Blair is no exception, drawing the ire of the commenters whose feedback is regularly constructively disparaging and never addressed. Bose’s [...]
Real Madrid don’t know how to haggle
The Mirror have an extraordinary exclusive this morning - remember when all Xabi Alonso deals were on hold until July 18 because of the knock-on payments to Real Sociedad would no longer apply? Well, that hasn’t stopped the negotiations apparently, and Real Madrid, it can be ‘revealed’ (evidence-free, of course), have been making bids for [...]
Sports thoughts from the weekend - clinging on
Clinging on against defeat
There’s a game England had no right to emerge from without defeat. But after a day when it almost invariably appeared that defeat was an inevitability, a draw was the result as Monty Panesar and James Anderson saw out the last 69 balls of the day and England finished 9 wickets down, holding [...]